RE: sort order of missing items

2010-08-20 Thread Brad Dewar
-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: sort order of missing items On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Brad Dewar bde...@stfx.ca wrote: When items are sorted, are all the docs with the sort field missing considered tied in terms of their sort order, or are they indeterminate, or do they have some

Re: sort order of missing items

2010-08-18 Thread Yonik Seeley
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Brad Dewar bde...@stfx.ca wrote: When items are sorted, are all the docs with the sort field missing considered tied in terms of their sort order, or are they indeterminate, or do they have some arbitrary order imposed on them (e.g. _docid_)? If it's a

sort order of missing items

2010-08-17 Thread Brad Dewar
When items are sorted, are all the docs with the sort field missing considered tied in terms of their sort order, or are they indeterminate, or do they have some arbitrary order imposed on them (e.g. _docid_)? For example, would b be considered as part of the sort in the following query, or